If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

We read to know that we are not alone.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

We are the slaves of slaves